Genus: Symphytum
Genus description:
Perennial, usually hispid herbs. Flowers in short ebracteate terminal cymes. Calyx lobed to 1/4 or almost to the base, accressent. Corolla variously coloured, with cylindrical tube and tubular-campanulate limb, with triangular to semicircular lobse much shorter than the rset of the corolla; throat with 5 lomng scales, usually with marginal papillae. Stamens included, inserted at about the middle of the tube; fillaments not more than 1 1/2 times as long as anthers. Style exerted; stigma very small, entire. Nutlets ovoid, erect, sometimes curved, usually verruculose and often rugose, concave at the base with a thickened collar-like ring.The number of cauline leaves given in the description does not include the pairs of leaves on the inlorescence-branches. The length of the fillaments refers only to the part not concealed by the anther.
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